Events

Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.

Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.

Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.

Genocide Ideology and Denial in Rwanda

School of Information 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

UMSI welcomes guest speaker Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, PhD, former Director General of the Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG). The presentation will take place at the School of Information in North Quad Space 2435 and...

Building the Gacaca Digital Archive

School of Information 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

UMSI welcomes guest speaker Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, PhD, former Director General of the Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG). The presentation will take place at the School of Information in North Quad Space 2435 and...

A Storm Was Coming: film screening

Palmer Commons 100 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI

A Storm Was Coming The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor a film screening and workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez. A Storm was Coming: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm - 7:00...

A Storm was Coming:  Workshop

Modern Languages Building 812 Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

A Storm was Coming:  Workshop The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor a film screening and workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez. A Storm was Coming: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm -...

The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care

Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall (4th floor) Please join the Museum Studies Program for its 20th anniversary keynote address by Cara Krmpotich, Director of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. Universality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work, including...

Exploring the past and shaping the future in archives and collections (Museums@Noon)

Online via Zoom

Kimberly Ransom, PhD, MSP18, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank While interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in...

MSP 22 Capstone Presentations

Online via Zoom

Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Expanding Narrating Nubia's Network:”  Best Practices for Online Exhibition and Access" Presented by Tori Herzig-Deribin, Tessa Oliveira, Abigail Staub Challenge statement:  To develop robust resources and best practice recommendations for the development of an online...

MSP22 Capstone Presentations

Online via Zoom

Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Marking the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum’s 25th Anniversary” Presented by Hannah Edwards, Charlotte Juergens, Shiyuan Wang Challenge statement: To identify and propose programming to boost both local engagement with the museum and international recognition of...

I See What You’re Saying: A WICAD Symposium at UMMA

University of Michigan Museum of Art

University of Michigan Museum of Art A Symposium on WICAD (the Workshop on Inclusive Co-Creation of Audio Descriptions) With Museum Visitors Who Are Blind, Partially-blind, And Sighted at UMMA 8 - 10:30 AM – Public Panel Discussion, Moderated by Audrey Bennett Location:  University of...

Lecture – Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship

Weiser Hall 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor this lecture associated with the "Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the 1973 Coup in Chile" series of events: "Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship" Speaker:  Peter Kornbluh, Director of the Chile...